Jade Sasser is completing a PhD focused on the intersections of population-environment linkages, global environmental politics, and reproductive justice. She has previously worked in the arena of international family planning in sub-Saharan Africa, first as a Peace Corps volunteer, and later as a program manager at an international health NGO. In addition to research, she now works on a project focused on the health impacts of climate change.

The attention being paid to climate change is much deserved but some advocates worry that it will revive many of the old alarmist debates on population and with it the calls for “population control” that almost always target poor women and women of color.